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Thought I'd share the PSU breakdown.
TV Rights fees: $17,745,973
NCAA BB Fund: $1,675,027
Bowl Game Money: $2,616,184
NCAA Broad Based Fund: $1,584,181
Football Championship Game: $387,568
B1G BB Tourney: $421,143
NCAA Supplemental Rev: $295,124
Total: $24,675,200
tOSU had highest payout of $24,781,200 and (excluding Nebraska) Iowa had the lowest at $24,666,200
Nebraska only received a total of $14,311,124 composed of $14,016,000 for TV rights and $295,124 in NCAA supplemental revenue. In essence NU subsidized each legacy schools by approx $900K and won't start sharing equally until fiscal 2018.
These sort of figures make you think twice about conference realignment. In addition to leaving $50m behind (potentially), Maryland might see a half share up until 2021.
That's a lot of money for someone projecting out 10 years into the future. No one knows what the future holds. When it comes to Missouri leaving the SEC, this problem becomes much bigger. Why risk it? They are locked in. When it comes to Kansas even, they not only pay the big exit fee, but then they're looking at half shares for almost a decade while their own conference gets $22m+.
It's like agreeing to lose $80m + exit fees.
Anyone want to bet $100m on what the future of college football will look like 10-15 years from now?
Leaving the current 5 conferences is essentially a 20-30 year investment. No thanks!